Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-09-22
JOCKEYS.
No.. WHO ara. LIKELY to &c. Rich or Break rhsi'
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To be a great jockey requireiI o great
deal Of hard work. nerve and patience
and those who are popular now nave
worked hard for years to earn
their regulations. All the big Jockeys
have commenced to work when very
young, and those that are young now
and Just beginning to ride in races all
hone that some day they viii ne as
GOOD riders as Mclaughlin, Garrison
HAYWARD and others. If boy wants
to become a Jockey he must be very
fond Of horses, and not at all afraid
Of them, and he unjust become attached
to a racing stable when he is very
young, about twelve years old. When
he first enters the stable he will beput
m work as a stable boy, and have to
carry water to the horses, make up
tbe bedding, clean harness ana ieao
the horses for exercise.
He will find that the work Is mol
easy. He will be at the beck ana can
Of every one in the stable, ana II ne
wants 10 succeed in the profession ne
has chosen must be willing 10 work.
During the racing aso the boys are
ali in bed at s or 8 o'clock at the lat
est, and they are all on the track
with their horses by sunrise the next
morning. All the work done in tram.
ing the horses is done at dawn. The
next move a good boy will get IS to
have a horse gwen him to rub down
and to keep clean. In this position
he ia called a rubber. After this II he
is a bright boy he is allowed to ride a
horse in exercise gallops.
This is as far as many OF the boys
ever rise, because the next position Is
that OF a jockey. To be a Jockey a
bow must have lots of nerve, have a
cool head, and be a good rider. lie
must be a good Judge oil pace n
know very nearly how fast the horses
are going along. II a trainer thinks a
bow could be trusted with a horse in
a race and then 1.-THE boy does well he
will soon rise to the top OF the tree.
A Jockeys pay is good. Mclaughlin
gets $40, 600 year from the Dryer
Brothers, Issac Murphy gets $4,000
a year from Lucky Baldwin, Fltz'
patrick gets $4,000 a year from the
Fairfax stable, and Garrison gets
$4,000 q year from Captain 5. ..
Brown; Others get paid in proportion
according to their abilities. All these
riders are allowed TO receive outside
mounts, that is, they are al
lowed to ride for any n when they
are not wanted by the stableto which
they are engaged. For these outside
mounts they are paid $50 if they win
and $10if they lose. But very often
when they win a bigrace they get much
larger fee. Mccarthy got $4,000 for
winning the Brooklyn handicap on
Dry Monopole, and last year Fitzpat.
rick was paid $4,000 for winning the
Suburban or Trcubadour for Cap
tain Brown. Some of the jockeys
spend the money they make as fast
as they get it, but Others save it, and
many of them now are very rich men.
The dangers OF a Jockeys life are
very great. They may be thrown in
a race at any time and be trampled
to death by horses behind them. The
horse they are riding may fall down
and by rolling on them may kill
them. Very often they get so
crowded in a race against other
horses or against the rails, that their
legs n broken, and sometimes the
horses they handle are so savage that
they kick and bite the boys.
When a boy decides to become a
jockey he must makeup his mind eth
er to make his fortune or break his
neck. One of the best trainers for
jockeys in this country is Father Bill
DAILY. He taught Mclaughlin and
Garrison to ride, and was making a
good lightweight of Little Moran when
he was killed at Brighton Beach last
year. He is now teaching Palmer to
ride. In some of the stables the boys
are treated very well. They all have
to live on the track. and some of the
large stables like the Fairfax, Higgins
and Dryers have rooms fitted up for
the boys, where they can learn to read
and write, and have a good library of
good books for them to read in their
leisure time.
In addition to other things a jockey
must have a strong constitution.
When they have to ride in races they
must not exceed the weight that the
horse has TO carry, and to get to this
weight they have to train. There are
several ways they have OF getting off
flesh. One is by taking medicine, but
that is not a safe way. One is by
taking Turish baths, but the most
popular way is by taking lots of ex-
erclse with heavy clothing on.